Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ Per­son­al data of asylum seekers, re­cog­nised refugees and per­sons in need of pro­tec­tion may not be dis­closed to their nat­ive coun­try or coun­try of ori­gin if the per­son con­cerned or their de­pend­ants would be en­dangered as a res­ult. No in­form­a­tion may be dis­closed re­gard­ing an ap­plic­a­tion for asylum.²⁹⁰

² The au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for the or­gan­ising de­par­ture may con­tact the nat­ive coun­try or the coun­try of ori­gin to ac­quire the travel doc­u­ments re­quired for the en­force­ment of the re­mov­al or­der if the refugee status has been re­fused in the first in­stance.²⁹¹

³ For the en­force­ment of re­mov­al to the nat­ive coun­try or the coun­try of ori­gin, the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for or­gan­ising de­par­ture may dis­close the fol­low­ing data to the for­eign au­thor­ity:

a.

per­son­al de­tails (name, first name, ali­ases, date of birth, place of birth, gender, na­tion­al­ity, last ad­dress in the nat­ive coun­try or the coun­try of ori­gin) of the per­son con­cerned and, as far as ne­ces­sary for their iden­ti­fic­a­tion, of de­pend­ants;

b.

in­form­a­tion about the pass­port or oth­er iden­tity pa­pers;

c.

fin­ger­prints, pho­to­graphs and fur­ther bio­met­ric data if ne­ces­sary;

d.

fur­ther data from doc­u­ments that help identi­fy a per­son;

e.

in­form­a­tion on the state of health, in­so­far as this is in the in­terest of the per­son con­cerned;

f.

the data re­quired to guar­an­tee the re­turnee’s entry to the des­tin­a­tion coun­try and to en­sure the se­cur­ity of the ac­com­pa­ny­ing per­sons;

g.

in­form­a­tion on crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings in the spe­cif­ic cases where this is re­quired for the read­mis­sion pro­ced­ure and to safe­guard pub­lic se­cur­ity and or­der in the nat­ive coun­try, and the per­son con­cerned will not be en­dangered thereby; Art­icle 2 of the Mu­tu­al As­sist­ance Act of 20 March 1981²⁹² ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis.²⁹³